List of the best Ken Mitsuishi movies: Kakera(2009), Tokyo Playboy Club(2012), Rent-a-Cat(2012), The Backwater(2013), Noriko's Dinner Table(2005), A Balance(2020), Himizu(2011), Eureka(2000), Invisible Waves(2006), Tokyo Oasis(2011), The Pillow Book(1996), Exte: Hair Extensions(2007) ... ...
Drama
Japan
2009
107 Minutes
Hikari Mitsushima Ken Mitsuishi Rino Katase Toshie Negishi Masahiko Tsugawa Eriko Nakamura Tasuku Nagaoka Kageki Shimoda
The story of the relationship between a college student whose relationship with her boyfriend is going nowhere and a bisexual medical artist who makes prosthetic body parts.
Crime, Comedy, Drama, Action
Japan
2012
98 Minutes
(Japanese with English subtitles) When Katsutoshi finds trouble at work and hides out at his friend's titular nightclub, lives intersect and strange situations arise in this dark comedy set in the seedy underbelly of Tokyo nightlife.
Drama
Japan
2012
110 Minutes
Goro Yoshida
Mikako Ichikawa Reiko Kusamura Ken Mitsuishi Maho Yamada Kei Tanaka
A single woman runs a rent-a-cat service to provide companions for lonely people.
Drama
2013
102 Minutes
Madoka
Masaki Suda Misaki Kinoshita Ken Mitsuishi Yuko Tanaka
Toma lives in a small riverside town with his brutish father and his father's girlfriend. Witnessing his father's predilections for abuse, Toma becomes anxious that he will have inherited those urges.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
2005
153 Minutes
Tetsuzo
A Japanese teenager (Kazue Fukiishi) runs away to Tokyo to join a weird Internet cult whose leader (Tsugumi) hires out members to clients who want to pretend they have a family.
Drama, Foreign
Japan
2020
153 Minutes
Kumi Takiuchi Yumi Kawai Masahiro Umeda Ken Mitsuishi
Documentary director Yuko portrays a school violence incident from three years ago that resulted in suicides, while she was teaching classes at her father's cram school. As her documentary ... See full summary »
Drama
2011
129 Minutes
Sumida's father
Tetsu Watanabe Mitsuru Fukikoshi Megumi Kagurazaka Ken Mitsuishi Makiko Watanabe Asuka Kurosawa Denden Jun Murakami Yôsuke Kubozuka Yuriko Yoshitaka Takahiro Nishijima
Drama
Japan|France
2000
218 Minutes
Shigeo
Koji Yakusho Aoi Miyazaki Masaru Miyazaki Yoichiro Saito Ken Mitsuishi Gô Rijû Yutaka Matsushige Sansei Shiomi Kimie Shingyoji
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The traumatized survivors of a murderous bus hijacking come together and take a road trip to attempt to overcome their damaged selves. Meanwhile a serial killer is on the loose.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Thailand|Netherlands
2006
115 Minutes
Tadanobu Asano Hye-jeong Kang Eric Tsang Maria Cordero Toon Hiranyasap Ken Mitsuishi Hideki Jitsuyama Tomono Kuga
After inadvertently killing his girlfriend, a man (Asano) flees Macau for Thailand in an attempt to cope with his guilt, and avoid possible arrest. But the relocation doesn't prevent his problems from following him, as his new friends could be potential enemies.
Drama
Japan
2011
83 Minutes
Satomi Kobayashi Kayo Nakamura Ryô Kase Tomoyo Harada Hana Kuroki Mikako Ichikawa Ken Mitsuishi Masako Motai
The floating clouds between the high buildings, the lines of the taillights under the moonlight, the swirling human waves... Every view in Tokyo looks as if it is alive. Before even she ... See full summary »
Romance
Netherlands|UK|France|Luxembourg|Austria
1996
123 Minutes
The Husband
Vivian Wu Ewan McGregor Yoshi Oida Ken Ogata Hideko Yoshida Judy Ongg Ken Mitsuishi Yutaka Honda Barbara Lott
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A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
Japan
2007
108 Minutes
Tatsuo Sugawara
Chiaki Kuriyama Ren Ôsugi Tsugumi Miku Sato Megumi Sato Mayu Sakuma Ken Mitsuishi Eri Machimoto Yûna Natsuo
About hair extensions that attack the women that wear them.
Crime, Drama, Action
Japan
2017
104 Minutes
"Beat" Takeshi Kitano Nao Ômori Pierre Taki Toshiyuki Nishida Sansei Shiomi Tatsuo Nadaka Ken Mitsuishi Hakuryu Ikuji Nakamura Yutaka Matsushige Kanji Tsuda
Five years after surviving the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo now works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a renowned fixer whose influence extends into Japan. A relatively minor incident causes tensions to rise between Chang Enterprises and the faraway powerful Hanabishi. The growing conflict gets out of hand and ignites a ferocious power struggle... See full summary »
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Japan
2017
130 Minutes
Suzuki
Masami Nagasawa Ryuhei Matsuda Hiroki Hasegawa Mahiro Takasugi Yuri Tsunematsu Kyôko Koizumi Kazuya Kojima Atsuko Maeda Ken Mitsuishi Takashi Sasano
Three aliens travel to Earth in preparation for a mass invasion, taking possession of human bodies.
Horror
Japan
1999
113 Minutes
Director
Ryo Ishibashi Eihi Shiina Tetsu Sawaki Jun Kunimura Renji Ishibashi Miyuki Matsuda Toshie Neghisi Ren Ôsugi Sigeru Saiki Ken Mitsuishi Yuriko Hirooka
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A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.